Karel Nel
Solo Exhibitions
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, Los Angeles
Volcanic Texts, Art First, London
Solo Journeys, Standard Back Gallery, Johannesburg
Images of Paradise and Death, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles
View on the Inner House, Art First, London
Isles and the Inner House, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, Los Angeles
Inner Province, Art First, London
Recent Work, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
Quite Lives, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of Witwatersrand
Recent Drawings and Guest Artist, Johannesburg Art Gallery
Drawings, Olivetti Gallery, Johannesburg
Karel Nel
Selected Group Exhibitions
Art First London, Celebrating 30 Years!
African Cosmos/Stellar Arts, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (originated by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC)
Penelope and the Cosmos, Karel Nel and Willem Boshoff, CIRCA, Johannesburg
Angaza Afrika, African Art Now, October Gallery, London
Ten Years of Democracy, South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town
Place, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen and Kastrupgardsamlingen, Kastrup, Denmark, Touring to Pretoria Art Museum and Oliwenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Art First at 10, Art First, London
The Shachat Art Collection, SASOL Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Claiming Art/Reclaiming Space: Post Apartheid Art from South Africa, Smithsonian, Washington DC
Emergence, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts,, Grahamtown and touring exhibition
Divided City Installation, In Nearer than Bronze Exhibition, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Art '97, The London Contemporary Art Fair with Art First
Art '96, The London Contemporary Art Fair with Art First
Three Years On, Art First, London
Insights, Wright Gallery, New York
Vita Art Today, Johannesburg Art Gallery
Terminos Installation, Johannesburg Art Gallery for the Johannesburg Biennale
Common and Uncommon Ground, South African Art to Atlanta, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Art '95, The London Contemporary Art Fair with Art First
Art '94, The London Contemporary Art Fair with Art First
Artists Under the Southern Cross, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Giholte-Baard-Breda Fonden, Copenhagen, with Doris Bloom and Marlene Dumas
Resident Artist, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown
Art '93, The London Contemporary Art Fair, Islington
Affinities, Contemporary South African Art, Venice Biennale (and Rome)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Johannesburg
Art Meets Science, Grahamstown Festival of the Arts
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Three South African Artists: A Contemplative View, Midlands Contemporary Art, Birmingham
Cape Town Triennial
Fort Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California (prizewinner)
Vita Art Now, Johannesburg Art Gallery
National Drawing Competition Exhibition, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown
Valparaiso Biennale, Chile
Tapestries, Linda Goodman Gallery, and tour to South Africa National Gallery
Selections From a Century, Johannesburg Art Gallery
Tributaries A View of Contemporary South African Art, BMW Exhibition, touring Germany and Europe
Cape Town Triennial
Paperworks Group Show (prizewinner)
Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg Association of Arts, Natal
Cape Town Triennial (Gold Medallist)
Durban Arts '80
Young Artists, Olivetti Gallery
Sculpture '80, University of Pretoria
University of Witwatersrand